History Trivia / ShinMegamiTensei

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A large portion of the franchise's mobile entries were released for older Japanese smartphones or services that have since been discontinued, making them difficult or even [[MissingEpisode outright impossible]] to acquire these days. G-Mode has started re-releasing them on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and Platform/{{Steam}} as part of their G-Mode Archives+ series, but they're [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] and there are still quite a few missing.
* NoExportForYou: A good fraction of the games, especially ones before UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames. This has changed in TheNewTens for North Americans --''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' was released in North America only two weeks after its Japanese release, ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' got its NA release two months after Japan's, when many prior localizations would take at least eight months, and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'' even got a simultaneous [[note]] though Japan got the game a day earlier[[/note]] worldwide release, a first for any SMT game, or even Atlus games as a whole. However, Europe still sadly gets the short end of the stick.

* FranchiseOwnershipAcquisition: Author Aya Nishitani was the creator of the original ''Literature/DigitalDevilStory'' series of novels. Creator/{{Atlus}} would adapt the novels into a video game, ''VideoGame/MegamiTensei'', in 1987. In 1992, Atlus would outright buy the franchise itself from the author after which the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series would become one of Atlus's {{Cash Cow Franchise}}s.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A large portion of the franchise's mobile entries were released for older Japanese smartphones or services that have since been discontinued, making them difficult or even [[MissingEpisode outright impossible]] to acquire these days. G-Mode has started re-releasing them on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} as part of their G-Mode Archives+ series, but they're [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] and there are still quite a few missing.

* SequelFirst: ''Jack Bros.'', an obscure UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'' clone spinoff, was the first game in the series to come to the US with many of the games.

* FranchiseKiller: More like Subseries Killer, but ''Ronde'' for the Sega Saturn ended up completely killing off the ''Majin Tensei'' subseries. * KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A large portion of the franchise's mobile entries were released for older Japanese smartphones or services that have since been discontinued, making them difficult or even [[MissingEpisode outright impossible]] to acquire these days. G-Mode has started re-releasing them on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} as part of their G-Mode Archives+ series, but they're [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] and there are still quite a few missing.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A large portion of the franchise's mobile entries were released for older Japanese smartphones or services that have since been discontinued, making them difficult or even [[MissingEpisode outright impossible]] to acquire these days.
* FranchiseKiller: More like Subseries Killer, but ''Ronde'' for the Sega Saturn ended up completely killing off the ''Majin Tensei'' subseries.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://megamitensei.wikia.com Yep]].

* FanNickname: [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]] for Omoikane.

* FanNickname: [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]] for Omoikane. The protagonists of ''Devil Summoner: VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', ''VideoGame/Persona1,'' ''VideoGame/Persona3'', and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are nameless in the game, but fans often use the names given to the characters in various manga and drama [=CDs=] based off the games.
** The protagonist of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' was also named like this at first, until [[AscendedFanon she was given a name]] (and a definite gender) in ''VideoGame/Persona1''.

* One of the items obtainable from vending machines is called "Cielo Mist", a drink made in Jamaica. This is a reference to the character Cielo from ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', who spoke with a Jamaican accent.

[[AC: VideoGame/Persona4]]
* If one is able to [[spoiler:avoid killing Namatame]], they are able to access a dungeon that must be cleared by December 24th, 2011. This is almost one year to the before the Mayan calendar ends.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Attempted early on. When the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' games were beginning to be localized to the United States starting with the first ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'', Atlus [=USA=] attempted to call the series ''[[LiteraryAllusionTitle Revelations]]''. Only [[VideoGame/{{Persona|1}} two]] [[VideoGame/LastBible games]] were released under the ''Revelations'' name and was officially dropped with the release of ''VideoGame/Persona2EternalPunishment'', and the series officially adopted the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' moniker starting with ''[[VideoGame/DevilChildren Demi Kids: Light Version and Dark Version]]''.
* FanNickname: [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]] for Omoikane. The protagonists of ''Devil Summoner: VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}},'' ''VideoGame/Persona3'', and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are nameless in the game, but fans often use the names given to the characters in various manga and drama [=CDs=] based off the games.
** The protagonist of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' was also named like this at first, until [[AscendedFanon she was given a name]] (and a definite gender) in ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}''.

* NoExportForYou: A good fraction of the games, especially ones before UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames. This has changed in TheNewTens for North Americans --''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' was released in North America only two weeks after its Japanese release, ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' got its NA release two months after Japan's, when many prior localizations would take at least eight months, and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'' even got a simultaneous [[note: though Japan got the game a day earlier]] worldwide release, a first for any SMT game, or even Atlus games as a whole. However, Europe still sadly gets the short end of the stick.

* NoExportForYou: A good fraction of the games, especially ones before UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames. This has changed in TheNewTens for North Americans --''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' was released in North America only two weeks after its Japanese release, and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' got its NA release two months after Japan's, when many prior localizations would take at least eight months. However, Europe still sadly gets the short end of the stick.

* NoExportForYou: A good fraction of the games, especially ones before UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames. This has changed in TheNewTens for North Americans--''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' was released in North America only two weeks after its Japanese release, and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' got its NA release two months after Japan's, when many prior localizations would take at least eight months. However, Europe still sadly gets the short end of the stick.
* RecursiveAdaptation: Aya Nishitani, the author of the original Digital Devil Story novel upon which the first game in the series was based on, would later write a manga inspired by the game series, titled Shin Megami Tensei - El Salem.
* SequelFirst: ''Jack Bros.'', an obscure Virtual Boy Gauntlet clone spinoff, was the first game in the series to come to the US with many of the games.

* There are only five ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games that allow the player to begin and end the game as a girl. They are ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'', ''Shin Megami Tensei NINE'', ''Devil Children Red Book'' and the PSP remake of ''VideoGame/Persona3''. Note that only in the first example being female mandatory. In original ''Devil Children Red Book'' being female also mandatory, but UpdatedReRelease merged [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo Red and Black books]] into one, thus making Mirai only an option.